the countdown to next winter olympics begins it's exactly one year until russia hosts its first ever winter games the promise to become the most unique and the most expensive industry. and not all the officials are in a celebratory mood as russia is a president lashes out at overspending and sacks one of the key figures behind the twenty forty. us military killing machine is set for a boost as an architect of america's drone strategy faces a confirmation to be head of the cia. growing anger into news here as the prime minister pledges to reshuffle the government on the assassination of an opposition leader is the most part he rejects the plan.

around the world around the clock twenty four seventh's you're with r.t.m. carried on. now it's exactly one year into the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in russia a special judgment of clocks in the country's biggest cities become the countdown for the event that will be held in the black sea resort city of sochi the clock is also ticking for the organizers as you say final preparations are on track and finishing touches are being done to make the games forgettable authorities are also keeping a close eye on how work is being completed before sochi becomes host to hundreds of thousands of sports men and women than guests from around the globe russian president vladimir putin has been personally checking the limpid values and said he was generally happy about what he saw but he did have some harsh criticism of tom's let's now talk to our teaser in the. in the studio it's

a huge event isn't it for russia in particular how close are we for things to be completed is it ready absolutely well and i'm saying absolutely that it's an important event but you could also see that in terms of the preparedness of the venues it's basically all the venues are basically eighty percent ready to receive the sportsmen the sports women and of course the audience but we're talking about the most expensive games in history ever basically but this is a very unique situation for literally fifteen minutes away from the beach you end up with the snow capped mountains and for the first ever olympic games to be held in this tropical area and of course that puts a certain strain on certain objects and does hike up the costs and russian president was of course exploring the ski facilities at the olympics at the olympic site and he did pose some questions which did not leave a lot of people very happy about what exactly was the on the there has been

a bit of a hullabaloo about this and absolutely that's right he was he was asking basically the details of the building of the ski jump facility and the exchange that took place between him and some of the government officials who were in charge of this particular this particular venue that exchange left some people rather. are there any cost overruns yes a serious increase in costs but since they use their own funds for the construction own funds. it's financed by the funds of krisna pollyana who's the shareholder of crescent spared bank so it's largely finance at the expense of sperm bank yes and these cost overruns are paid for by sperm bank yes it spending one of the costs of this whole facility cost plus the overall was. initially very assessing the amount of the loan. what's a rough estimate. initial price is one point two billion now it's

a billion one point two billion has turned into eight billion yes well done good work let's move on. so yes we are talking about a two year delay we are talking about major cost overruns but a band you want to know is it really worth it well here's andrew farmer for all of this pointing out exactly what is so special and unique about the upcoming twenty fourteen olympic games the news. piece by piece sort she's a limp dick dream is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show

jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personal can train the managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the intake history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six families all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this past hockey arena is prestigious i'm ready for yeas it will stay to the under eighteen will championships in april when the team does an international event that will test.

before the games begin the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limping park is done by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or type a slow forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine ski. the biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the pope's light track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping around on the left hand side is for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been

laid and they have transformed infrastructure but the city mayor believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver against remember this time next year and. a soft cheek.

news now from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are ahead for barack obama's nominee for cia head of his confirmation hearing in the senate john brennan is widely seen as not protecting u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around is kind of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad so after eight years of keeping it secret he's going to take on reports brennan's confirmation might broaden horizons for america's drone fleets. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled

remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionising we're. allowing us to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many

cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked. ammo on targeted assassinations from the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. live a few might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to a thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s.

is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of

course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan. if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further the goal is pretty much clear to be able to control the world with a remote control in washington i'm going to check that. the political crisis in tunisia deepens the ruling is limits party rejects the prime minister's move to dissolve the government and form an interim cabinet in the wake of fresh violent protests latest wave of public arrests was on least by the assassination of a secular opposition leader and a longtime critic of is in this dominated government by night his death has sparked protests across the country with angry demonstrators in the capital question with riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and protesters believe the

islamists are behind the assassination and regime change is very similar to those that heralded the arab spring two years ago political analyst danny markey has told us a new cabinet reshuffle can guarantee that history will be repeated. this is a calculus for more violence and the war on iraq even easier of course to museum of the heart of the arab spring we know is an area where you have the arab street is so politicized that any small change of course you can create contempt and hatred within society and this is essentially conveyed within two museum now where you have mass protests against the government we have many calls for the government to resign and you have outrage public outrage against its affiliation which has been deemed has been committed by people who have close links with the government in tonight but this is in government but this really shows that the arab spring is not necessarily going to force a change in good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and it showed that the

muslim brotherhood they really. want to see what they are and what they have done essentially replace the regime supposing overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us. and of course we're always eager to hear your views on the stories we cover at r.t. dot com we can head to our online poll and let us know what you think the outcome of the latest bout of timmy's in process will be and here's how opinion has been divided so far let's have a look there it is a third of those who've already voted think that it will plunge into further unrest around the cortef fear the latest upsurge of public all the rest will lead to a government crackdown on protesters and about the same amount believe that the country might see another revolution and just a little less than that on the contrary i think that the leadership is ready for

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i. welcome back more world news for you now the british government is considering using so-called black boxes to monitor private citizens internet use they say in the interests of safety the move has been criticized as a point to some version of privacy carbon deputy director of the big brother watching organization says the new measures would do nothing to catch people who pose a real security threat the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and

the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this information and will react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fund the full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. well online today the ugly side of austerity we have a story of how greeks are brought in desperation by budget cuts risked their lives and literally have to fight for food. easing flight nerves and getting into the holiday mood with drink and soon become illegal in russia the government is now considering

a ban on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of in-flight brew was. used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world. can't. operations. syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked the government forces tend to seize control of key approaches to the city center the fighting came despite. the opposition knew that. they go she ate with her deputy governor and could also be willing to talk according to its ally iran whose foreign minister was called in to that. islamic summit however

there are splits within the opposition that makes to be unlikely even if they bring down. and says syria tribune editor in chief i don't know how many. you just i mean it's just like. the nicer ones now and it's machiavelli have it. actually. right even when the you. listed. it's a blacklist the amount of. the movie. so normal because. the believe that the in control of the. regime the. most important part is these are the princes and well if you created people they are not full of issues they are not martyrs for freedom they are just work this is the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and me i'm fine with things.

to do and if they don't do it they will lose the financing support so they have to do this and have the don't know how to who and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same if you will so it's a big mess what are some other international headlines in brief for you now iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has rejected the u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear ambitions saying the two countries cannot negotiate when to iran has a gun pointed out it becomes just a day after washington tightened economic sanctions on iran and restricting cash from oil production u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one to one discussions last saturday. leader of hamas says he's in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about forging a coalition government had mentioned that both parties are getting ready ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections and push the movement headed by

a bus out of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven a conflict between the two sides. wildfires in australia are making their way across the south of tasmania but emergency services are bracing for worsening weather conditions authorities have called on some locals to move from inaccessible areas until the danger has passed its latest wave of fires comes after bush fire destroyed nearly two hundred properties last month. well now coming your way our special report on how video games can affect your state of mind stay with us for that.

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number of. million people three years there will be around fourteen million of them . have so deeply immersed in online games that force is the only way to get him to pay attention. for these people the real world is simply not enough so they bring the diversions of virtual reality into their. i deal with the weapons psychologists and psychiatrists argue whether or not the human mind can be affected by computer games and if so which part of the brain is responsible.